Sheet-metal can.



F. WESTERBEGK. SHEET METAL GAN.

y APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6, 1905. lo

Patented Junel, 1909.

` readily removed than in such (meses heretof' FREDERICK WESTERBECK,' QF ST. LOUS; MSSOURK.

emET-METL om.

Epecice-tion of Letters Patent.

patented .Tune 15, iz.

Application mea maken e, 1905. Serial mi. 24eme.

To eli whom moy concern:

it Known het l, FREDEMCK WESTER- BECK, i citizen oi the Unite@ States, residing in the city oi St. Louis, in 'the State of Miesouri, lieve invented certain new end useful Improyeiiients iii Sheet-Metei Cans. of which the. l'oliowing ie e' full, clear, endfexeot description, reierence being had to the eccompenying drawing, forming part of this specicatioii. Y

My invention relates to an Vimprmfemeiit in that class of sheet metel cene more peiam tioulei'iy used for the preservation oi' fruit, and ithesl'or its ohjectto provide as construel tion in the can whereby ite'li may be more fore mede.

further object of the irnpiofement is to provide en indicator whereby the contents of cans may be designated.

Figuie i is a top View of my een with the lid Seated thereon. Fig. H isI an enlmgeil top View of e. fragment of the can with the lid removed. Fie. HI is en enlarged cross section teken on line III-HL Fig. I. Fig. 1V is im enlarged. cross section taken on line FiL-IV, Fig. i.

i designates the body of my can et the top of which is the inturned und clowntorned flange 2 having en upwardly extending annul ler lip 3. The I'iaiige 2 and lip 3 provide the usual sealing mixture pocket common to fruit cans.

At the top o1" the can body is a. depression =l formed in the inturned ilenge 3 and at 'the bottom of this depression is a Het surface 5 that is located between the downwardly in- @lined poitionof the iia'ne 2 :md theilp warclly extending ennuie? 1p 3.

6 desighetee the lid oi the een which is pz'o- 4 vided with a. dovmturned rim 7. This lid is adapted to be a plied to the uptumedinnu lei" i 3 so that its i'im its ove theuptu'meii annu er lip 3 of the een and occupies vthe pocket foi'med by said rim and the mturned; Harige The lid. 6 beers e variety of desig nations oi' eitioiee that may be introduoed into the een sind. through the medium. of which theeonizeiits of the een may be infli., cated. j i' i When e een. constructed in a'ocord'emee with .my improvement has been filled the lid is so applied thereto es to position e designa-5f` tion on the lid corresponding to the contente o the een. iii line with the depression 4,; wheieby the contents of the Canis inelicetefi, due to the depression sewing es en index.

In a sheet metal can, theco'mloinetion w' li the oen. body having er1-inwardly end down werdly inclined enge'teiminating in an up i wardly extending lipforming an angular an miler sealing pocket in the top of seid body; of e lid provided with a depending rim im pin ing the inclined flange without reaching e;

the ottom of the pocket, seid inclined HarigeA being provided with o radial depression to permit the introduction oie lever below the rim of seid lid.

FREDEMCK WESTERBECK. i

in presence o- NELLm V. ALL@'mii'imile` l E. S. KNIGHT. 

